After the Revolution, Shawneetown served as an important United States government administrative center for the Northwest Territory. Shawneetown and Washington, D.C., share the distinction of being the only towns chartered by the United States government. In early November 1803, Lewis and Clark are believed to have stopped at Old Shawneetown on their way to Fort Massac, just down the Ohio River. Old Shawneetown is the site of the first bank in Illinois, constructed in 1812. Now known as the John Marshall House, it is third oldest brick building in Illinois. Local legend states that the Shawneetown Bank refused to buy the first bonds issued by the city of Chicago on the grounds that no city located that far from Shawneetown could survive. Another historic bank building, the Bank of Illinois, was constructed in 1839-41 to house the offices of the Bank of Illinois at Shawneetown. It later housed numerous other financial institutions before it was closed in the 1930s. This fine example of Greek Revival architecture survives as the Shawneetown Bank State Historic Site. General John Alexander McClernand grew up in Shawneetown. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1832. He started a newspaper, the Shawneetown Democrat, in 1835. He served in the Illinois General Assembly between 1836 and 1843. He was elected to the United States Congress, serving four terms between 1836 and 1843. He was again elected to Congress in 1861, but soon resigned to become a general in the American Civil War. McClernand was the main rival of Ulysses S. Grant for command of Union forces in the west, eventually losing to Grant. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Shawneetown%2C_Illinois

A bunch of Oldhams moved into an otherwise decent town and next thing you know the levy gave way and washed the town away. Like cockroachs though, the Oldhams survived and have made Old Shawneetown a stinking cess pool of drug use, meth addicts, 14 year old girls pregnant by their cousins and all kinds of imbred swine

PAUL WAYNE MASSEY FOR MAYOR OF OLD TOWN!!!!

A place where the dog population rules over the human populations not only in numbers but also in brain cells!

A town where the only decent place is a restaurant named Freida's, but you can hardly get there because of the huge packs of dogs and imbred chldred with three ears that infest the street. The once town is ran by a guy named "The Foot" who smells like Joey Beasley's jock strap after a romp with Tabitha Vaughn and the streets are littered with shirtless Oldhams (male & female) who are covered with horrible looking tattoos and scabbies. It is also reported that the every Oldham in town has been serviced by the new Prositute named "Deepthroat" Penny Barlow.

Evidentally, the only intelligent work this Old Shawneetown trash know is "evidentally". The town is the asshole of the world, and as far as "Evidentally Mr. Break a Jaw does not know anything about Old Shawneetown or the Oldham family. I date him to come to Shawneetown and make these comments to these people to their faces", I neither want to get AIDS and the swine flu by coming into contact with such trash as the Oldhams, nor do I want to date you, I'm not your type, as in I'm not related to you, so it would be impossible for me to give birth to a baby born with prison tatoos and fifteen toes. So do yourself a favor, drink one last bottle of malt liquor, smoke one more puff of meth, and put a platic bag over your head and make sure that my hard earned tax dollars don't have to feed another lazy, welfare dependant mouth.

The reason I don't live in Old Shawneetown is because all of the Oldhams are even too skanky for me!!!

Well, Mr "Old Town Res" hasn't been on here in forever. Maybe his electricity got turned off since it was so close to the end of the month when he made his last comments. You'd think that since the first has come and gone, he'd be able to pay the electricity bill by now. Then again, the rent on a trailer that sits next door to your grandma, your sister, and your three illegitimate kids must really put a strain on that $500 a month check you get from the government. Do the world a favor and get out from behind your computer (that you probably received because the last person you sold meth to couldn't pay for it) and get a real job so my back will stop hurting from carrying your ass through life. "Gallatin County Res"